Saying goodbye by phone: Death in lockdown

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Saying goodbye by phone: Death in lockdown

Taranaki from Hawera 1 Sept
The view as reporter Fiona Cassie drove into Taranaki recently for the Alert Level 3 funeral of her elderly father, who died during lockdown

PERSONAL STORY

Fiona Cassie shares her experience of being unable to say goodbye to her father at his bedside when he died

It was a 1970s’ veteran Ford Galaxy hearse – which he specially requested as he loved big American cars When your father is frail and 90, your br